In Uganda, MMM have a base in Kansiira, a remote rural area, 180 kms from the capital city, Kampala. It is an area that includes ten villages, with mud houses and thatched roofs. The people are poor, with subsistence farming, cattle rearing and fishing in nearby Lake Kyoga as the […]
READ MORE: Update from UgandaFor the last few years, the MMM community in Brazil has been researching a new place of Mission. In February, 2023, like the disciples ‘we were sent’ – missioned to Alto Boa Vista, Mato Grosso! Full of excitement and enthusiasm, after a two-day journey, we arrived…the ‘seed’ was planted! The next […]
READ MORE: Birthing the MMM Mission in Mato GrossoBy Sr. Otibhor Uwagbale, MMM The MMM Mukuru Health Program is situated in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, a slum in Nairobi. We offer a wide range of services and almost all our clients/patients are residents from the slum where there is abject poverty and deplorable living conditions. Irrespective of our location, […]
READ MORE: MMM Mukuru, Kenya, Wins AwardTorugbene is in the Catholic diocese of Bomadi in Delta State of Nigeria. It is a village in the creeks of the Niger Delta. Fishing is a great occupation here. The people do bits of farming wherever they can find a piece of land. During the rainy season, the roads […]
READ MORE: TorugbeneFrom St. Mary’s Hospital, Eleta, Nigeria The trouble with having our clinics and hospitals in remote areas is the difficulty of recruiting staff to work in areas difficult to access with little or no public transport. This was the dilemma faced by St. Mary’s Hospital in Eleta, Nigeria. Without staff […]
READ MORE: MMM Staff Talking!By Sr. Prisca Ovat, MMM Coming to the end of my mission in Kenya, global warming was my last topic with the group of high school students I mentored. I asked them each to write a letter to future generations. What would they like to say? It is quite fascinating […]
READ MORE: Climate Change – Students Letters to Future GenerationsAs the world concentrated recently on the prevention and elimination of Covid-19 other diseases can be forgotten. Malaria is one of these. Recent good news from WHO (October 2021) on a malaria vaccine for children can bring great improvement to the global picture. However, disruption in services due to the […]
READ MORE: Malaria – The Forgotten DiseaseBy Sr. Carol Breslin, MMM On September 13, 2023, I travelled to New York City from our MMM house in Somerville to present our MMM story to the board of directors of UNANIMA International. UNANIMA International non-governmental organization with consultative status at the United Nation, representing 22 congregations of women […]
READ MORE: Our New United Nations VentureBy Sr. Prisca Ovat, MMM First Published in Global Sisters Report, June 2023 Responding to God with creative fidelity, I left my home in Nigeria in 2013 to go to Kenya, trusting in the God of the missions to help me blossom wherever I was planted. Like the spring flower, […]
READ MORE: A Young Sister Tells Her StoryIn June, the Global Sisters Report published an article about MMM Sisters in Fuka, Northern Nigeria. It was entitled “After violent attacks, Sisters of the Medical Missionaries of Mary in Nigeria launch mini clinic” and the journalist was Patrick Egwu. He interviewed Srs. Florence Njoka and Nancy Ong’era as they worked […]
READ MORE: Working Amidst Violence in Northern Nigeria